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I went to my update manager and upgraded my Ubuntu to 9.10. After it was done, it said it needed to restart, and when it did I got a black screen with this message:

usplash: setting mode 1280x1024 failed-40b0-8f4d-c4afe4ee4001
usplash: Setting mode 1152x865 failed
usplash: Using mode 1024x768

Ubuntu 9.10 nate-desktop-ubuntu tty1

nate:desktop-ubuntu login:

EDIT: After using sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf and changing the resolution to 800x600 and then using sudo update-initramfs -u and restarting, the error doesn't show up. But instead of my desktop with icons and everything, I get a black screen with this:

Boot from (hd0,5) ext    1f60f2b0-6a61-40b0-8f4d-c4afe4ee4001
Ubuntu 9.10 nate-desktop-ubuntu tty1

nate-desktop-ubuntu login:

The error is gone but how do I get to my desktop? I put in my login info but it's just the terminal! What do I do?

EDIT2: I now am told it is no problem with usplash but with nVidia. What should I do now??

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FYI: usplash has been supplanted by xsplash – ephemient Nov 7 at 20:33
Ubuntu Karmic runs both usplash and xsplash, to leave no stage of the boot process unprettified. usplash may well be dropped in future though. – bobince Nov 9 at 19:52
Looks like it's all being dropped in favor of Plymouth for 11.04 – ephemient Dec 14 at 19:30

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This seems to be a common error particularly for nVidia users at 1440x900: bug 67826.

Try changing the resolution in usplash.conf (sudo nano /etc/usplash.conf then sudo update-initramfs -u) to something simpler, eg. 1024x768.

Or just apt-get remove usplash completely; it's not exactly an essential part of Ubuntu. (The ubuntu-desktop metapackage relies on it, but there's little harm in removing that.) Since xsplash comes up so quickly now for me in 9.10 I dropped usplash and don't really see any disadvantage. It'll probably be gone in 10.04 anyway.

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The error is gone but Ubuntu still boots up as a terminal, how do I access my desktop? – Nironan12 Nov 7 at 20:32
hmm. What happens when you run startx from the command line? Any more useful error messages? – bobince Nov 9 at 19:51
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I had a problem with my Nvidia driver. I reinstalled the driver and everything worked correctly after a reboot.

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Hi, I have what sounds like the exact same problem described in this thread, and I'm excited to see that there is a solution. My question is -- like the original poster, after my machine rebooted following 9.10 upgrade, it won't start, sits at a flashing "login" prompt, and I cannot type. How do I get the machine started again / get to a shell, so that I can fix the usplash problem?

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whoops - I see some other threads about booting into safe mode - I will try that and see if I can apply the fixes from there. – Scott Nov 5 at 17:57
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That's not a usplash error at all. It sounds like an nVidia driver problem, as bobince says. Please edit your question to reflect "Ubuntu fails to start Xorg after upgrade to 9.10" or words like that.

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A fresh install of Ubuntu did the trick.

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the description of ubuntu failing to boot completely sounds familiar with my experience. so i was thinking of a clean install, but i stuck with creating a backup of the /home/username/Documents/ what exactly is the problem with the upgrade? usplash or nvidia driver...

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